Car Seat Recycling Trial Scheme

Last year, we were approached by the folks at Equilibrium – an environmental and sustainability management company – to see if we’d be interested in chatting about the feasibility of a child restraint recycling program.

Of course, we said yes.

After meetings with Equilibrium and other state environmental agencies, sustainability organisations, motor groups and other industry members, we now find ourselves with the very first Child Car Seat Recycling Trial Scheme!

Our new child car safety seat recovery trial program offers parents a free and environmentally-friendly option for disposing of their old child car restraints. By collecting and disassembling the seats on-site, the program aims to divert in excess of 900 tonnes of waste away from landfill and back into the recycling stream.

You can take your old, out of date or damaged car seats to any of the following recycling centres, for free, until the end of this month;

Currently most disposed child car safety seats find their way to landfill, when approximately 90% of the seat is of recyclable material.

Imagine over 200,000 child car safety seats stacked on top of each other. The seats would climb a staggering height of over 100km. That’s how many car seats make it to landfill each year.

Did you know that the current disposal rate of child car seats would equate to in excess of 900 tonnes to landfill?

The wasteful disposal of child safety seats is a cost to the government, the community and the environment.

But that’s not all…

While the reclaiming of recyclable materials is of the utmost importance to the environment, there’s a safety aspect to this scheme as well. By removing old, end-of-life and damaged car seats from the marketplace, we’re able to ensure they won’t be resold or picked up at kerbside, potentially causing harm to children should they be used.

InfaSecure is committed to supporting and promoting this scheme, and we ask you to share it with your communities, especially those in or around the trial collection sites.